The Infinity Symbol and Binary Star Systems

"Hermes. We have already talked about the Circle of the Animals. or the life giving one, of the five planets, and the Moon and the Sun, and of the Circle of each one of these."

"Her. Beneath the Circle of this frame are ranged the Six and thirty Decans, between this Circle of the Universe  and that one of the Animals, determining the boundaries of both these Circles. and, as it were, holding that of the Animal aloft up in the air, and so defining it.
They share the motion of the planetary Spheres and [yet] have equal powers with that of the whole."

 

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This refers to the  astronomical system of underlying the Pythagoreo - Platonic traditions, as, for instance, set forth allegorically and symbolically by Plato in the famous passage in The Timaeus (36bc) "The entire compound he divided lengthways into two parts, which he joined to one another at the centre like the letter X, and bent them into a circular form, connecting them with themselves and each other at the point opposite to their original meeting point; and , comprehending them in a uniform revolution upon the same axis, he made the one the outer and the other the inner circle. Now the motion of the outer Circle he called the motion of the same, and the motion of the inner circle the motion of the other or diverse." (Jowett's Translation iii. 454, 455) The X symbolizes the "crosswise," which in terms of motion may be translated into "inverse to".

This is just a theory I hastly pasted together, but it felt so right. It came to me while I was reading through, "Thrice Greatest Hermes - Vol. 3  Excerpt IX. 'Of the Stars'. I saw, "he made the one the outer and the other the inner circle.", among other things, and thought " that kinda sounds like a binary solar system."

Being low on time right now I will let this idea brew for a couple days until I can do more research. This could also just have to do with the movement of the sun through the year. Creating the shape we use for Infinity. We shall see, tho, what I can come up with.

On top of this, we also see a serious understanding about the working of the Cosmos.

How we were taught people thought the earth was flat, I do not know....